Farmers and Bank Greed

Timbercorp victims say they're still living with depression, anxiety and financial hardship almost a decade after the managed investment scheme went bust and they want the banking royal commission to hear their stories to help bring closure to their ordeal.

A SENATE inquiry into primary production financial lending has made 27 recommendations aimed at enhancing farmers’ powers and rights in sensitive areas like debt mediation and farm foreclosures.

Today Justice Gordon brought down two decisions by the High Court that have ended the political attacks on me by Bruce Bell, describing them as “frivolous and vexatious.” The Justice also ordered costs in favour of myself and I believe Mr Bell will have to front up in excess of $40,000.

FARMERS and farm representatives from diverse backgrounds are set to deliver potentially contentious evidence at the Senate Select Committee’s inquiry into bank lending practices, at tomorrow’s hearing in Perth.

Senators urged to give nod to Royal Commission. ANGRY farmers could not hold back the frustations and tears as they pleaded with Senators to recommend a Royal Commission be held into the banking sector at a special public hearing in Charters Towers yesterday.

ANGRY farmers could not hold back their frustrations and tears as they pleaded with senators to recommend a royal commission be held into the banking sector at a special public hearing in Charters Towers yesterday.

A CARDWELL man is breathing easier after finding out he can stay in his Cardwell home which had been about to be repossessed. Wheelchair-bound former prawn farmer Sam Sciacca was weeks away from homelessness when circumstances behind the forced sale of the home by La Trobe Financial changed.